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DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. Databend vs. Dgraph vs. Firebird vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. Databend vs. Dgraph vs. Firebird vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#283  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroragithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
dgraph.iowww.firebirdsql.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmldocs.databend.comdgraph.io/­docswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
DeveloperAmazonDatabend LabsDgraph Labs, Inc.Firebird FoundationIBM
Initial release2015202120162000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2017
Current release1.0.59, April 20235.0.0, January 20242.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageRustGoC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemshostedhosted
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnoyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtime
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonoPSQLyes
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneyesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationActive-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersNo - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesno infoPlanned for future releasesUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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